The Grain of Spatially Referenced Economic Cost and Biodiversity Benefit Data and the Effectiveness of a Cost Targeting Strategy

Conservation Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1451-1461

  Sutton, N J ^a   Armsworth, P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Land trust; Opportunity; Scale dependence; Systematic conservation planning; Value of information

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; HABITAT CONSERVATION; INVESTMENT; PRIORITIZATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

UNITED STATES;

BIODIVERSITY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 84912061003     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12405     Document Type: Article

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